Sir Thomas Browne: A Doctor's Life of Science & FaithA study of Sir Thomas Browne, a seventeenth century physician who was deeply concerned with his own faith at a time of religious strife and of new interest in science, and the remarkable age in which he lived. |
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... the present age hath produced none that hath had better reception amongst the learned ; it hath been received and fostered by almost all , there having been but one that I know of ... that hath had the face to appear against it ...
... the present age hath produced none that hath had better reception amongst the learned ; it hath been received and fostered by almost all , there having been but one that I know of ... that hath had the face to appear against it ...
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Yet of authority , he says : “ The mortallest enemy “ unto Knowledge , and that which hath done the greatest execution upon truth ... hath been the establishing of upon the dictates of Antiquity . ” He says in his opening discussion ...
Yet of authority , he says : “ The mortallest enemy “ unto Knowledge , and that which hath done the greatest execution upon truth ... hath been the establishing of upon the dictates of Antiquity . ” He says in his opening discussion ...
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He that hath the ashes of his friend , hath an everlasting treasure.8 This material indicates that Browne was working in the same direction as was Priestley when he discovered the process of oxidation . But at the suggestion of human ...
He that hath the ashes of his friend , hath an everlasting treasure.8 This material indicates that Browne was working in the same direction as was Priestley when he discovered the process of oxidation . But at the suggestion of human ...
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Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 3 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 37 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Sir Thomas Browne: A Doctor's Life of Science & Faith Issue 16 of Life of science library |
| Author | Jeremiah Stanton Finch |
| Publisher | Schuman, 1950 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 8 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 319 pages |
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